http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/ Engadget Comments for AMD and Intel's six-core CPU plans revealed by mobo makers http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/
Competition FTW

AMD better submit a product worth deciding over. I've been only spec'n Intel for last 3 years at least. Intel knows it and prices are high.]]>Jan 29th 2010 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/
Only bought an AMD based computer (PhenomX II 940) last time because the cost of the entire unit saved me about £300 over the i7 920, it isn't just their chips that cost the extra money but alas as a student I needed quad for CAD.]]>Jan 29th 2010 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/
I'd rather see game dev's putting more time into using multiple cores!]]>Jan 29th 2010 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/
Core 2 Duo E8600, 3.33GHz (dual core) costs about £200
Phenom II X4, 3.4GHz (quad core) I can get for £140]]>Jan 29th 2010 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/
Hopefully all the PS3 devs can give a helping hand in these situations because lets be fair, if you've done a lazy port to PS3 its going to run like ass out the box :P]]>Jan 29th 2010 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/
IBM will be happy to sell you POWER6 at up to 5GHz. Just be prepared to pay for it...]]>Jan 29th 2010 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/
They'd be happier to sell you a Power7 chip. ]]>Jan 29th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/
6 cores..... you'll be multitasking like a mo fo...]]>Jan 29th 2010 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/980X runs on X58 boards, samples have already made their way around]]>Jan 29th 2010 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Hope that will be the case.. im just going by the core i(x) mobos... which i understand why... totally different chip all together]]>Jan 29th 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/That's fine with me as long as it's a) cheaper and b) cooler.
]]>Jan 29th 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/I would guess $200-300.]]>Jan 29th 2010 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/

Windows 7 is even better with Hyperthreading, Intel and Microsoft partnered up to develop hyperthreading-specific technologies to enhance performance, such as always filling up "real" cores before virtual ones, ect. ]]>Jan 29th 2010 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/In application that are designed for it HT can boost things by 14% or so.
And recently intel revealed that they worked with MS and the kernel of w7 is actually tweaked to work better with hyperthreading.

Nevertheless the showing it as actual separate cores in taskmanager is a blatant lie I agree, and one that seems to work.

Oh and with singlethreaded applications like games it can actually be slightly decremental I'm told, I guess that's why you can turn HT off in the BIOS settings.
On the other hand MS is putting multi-threading in DX and graphicsdrivers are starting to be multithreaded too, so because of that even singlethreaded games should get a slight boost from multiple cores, or at least in 'lowest FPS' becoming higher than before, less lag spikes I imagine, and because of that break even even with HT enabled (again that's a guess).
]]>Jan 29th 2010 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/I wonder what kind of cooler 6 cores need though, even at 32nm, the current third party coolers for intel already are too tall for many cases, and too wide to not start interfering with the RAM slots, so I guess that expensive gulftown and beyond as well as the AMD versions will include a 'boxed' watercooler?
]]>Jan 29th 2010 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Jan 29th 2010 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/Xenon aren't consumer processors though, they are server chips.

]]>Jan 29th 2010 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/
I'm sorta happy I didn't get any quad-core systems yet.]]>Jan 29th 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/I think you might be a bit out of touch, quad cores are ubiquitous and dual cores are mainly picked by people that know that a higher clocked cheap dual core is better in games than a lower clocked quad, but the new adaptive stuff intel released does the changing to single/dual core and ramping up speed automagically now, so that old wisdom is going the way of the dodo too, and now the last few months only low budget stuff does dual.
Besides, initially, the first 6 months at least, six cores will be only for the 'enthusiast' since it will start at $999.]]>Jan 29th 2010 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/
I can't wait to see high end 32 nm chips. Nothing beats the power of overclocking.

As for the future, it's going to be exciting to look forward to even smaller ships like the 22.5 nm that can (theoretically) run even faster. Just have to wait for most of the 45 nm chips life cycle to end.

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